CENIC to Support National LambdaRail's Network Operations Services

National LambdaRail (NLR) along with the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) recently announced that the transfer of NLR's Network Operations Center (NOC (News - Alert)) to CENIC has been completed.

Commenting on the agreement between CENIC and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, NLR chairman and CEO, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said, "NLR now has very robust support for our NOC, engineering and TelePresence services and we look forward to excellent enhanced partnerships with both CENIC and UW-Whitewater. We currently have the right infrastructure in place now to meet our objectives to support the growing 'big data' demands of scientific research, in particular the massive new data demands that genomic medicine will need as it transforms healthcare in the country."

For a number of years, CENIC has been offering NOC services at the optical layer to NLR. Apart from optical layer services, CENIC will take on the responsibility of providing switch, router and engineering support desk NOC services. CENIC will also provide network design engineering capabilities for NLR based on the recently expanded agreement.

CENIC chief executive officer, Louis Fox said "As a founding member of NLR, CENIC is pleased not only to be providing all of NLR's Network Operations Center, but also to be supporting NLR's engineering requirements. This reinforces our combined mission to serve the research community, not only throughout California but also across the United States."

National LambdaRail also confirmed that technical support for its TelePresence services would now be supported by the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. NLR is responsible for providing the research and education community access to one of the biggest TelePresence networks, which has more than 250 end points and extends into 14 countries. The network also provides interconnection to commercial carrier networks in order to enable the R&E community to connect to industry.

California's education and research communities make use of their networking resources under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California. This is done in order to provide cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support their projects and meet the requirements of their faculty, staff and students.